00到07年的基础英语真题,及答案

5) They are now playing the match which was snowed off at Manchester last Saturday.

6) One of the most expensive and cumbersome aspects of cellular service is “roaming,” which means using your cellular phone outside its home service area.

7) You’re going to be able to write. If I could just keep you under my thumb for four or five weeks I think I could make something out of you.

8) Early in life, some people become seized with the bizarre idea that we are constantly assaulted by invisible monsters called germs, and that we have to be on constant alert to protect ourselves against their fury.

Ш. Translate the following passages into English, using the answer sheet provided: (32 points)

1．现在的大学生的学习压力相当重。除了大四，他们开始找工作了，其余的学生总是忙于学习，而不愿参加校园团体和俱乐部，不愿参加体育锻炼和其他课外活动，不愿关心和学习没有关系的事。总之，他们就像一个机器人。看到同寝室里的人都上图书馆学习，到深夜闭馆才回，而自己却去看电影，他们就会有一种内疚感。一想到白天什么事都没干，心里就感到不安，会整夜因此睡不好觉。他们的学习太紧张，几乎没有时间好好品尝生活，干些其他事，成为一个全面发展的人。读大学使他们失去太多的个人幸福和健康。

2．过去，人们并没有充分认识到污染给环境造成的影响。只是把它看成；一种熏黑房屋、弄脏河流的令人讨厌的东西。直道不久前人们才认识到污染还会对人体健康造成威胁。而且这种威胁之大，足以影响许多生命的生存，甚至包括人类本身的生存。

北京外国语大学

2003年硕士研究生入学考试基础英语试题参考答案

I．Reading Comprehension

This section contains two passages. Read each passage and then answer the questions given at the end of each passage, using the answer sheet provided.

Passage One

On stage at Belfast’s Grand Opera House last week, flanked by volunteers and politicians’ wives, Clinton celebrated the role of women in the Northern Ireland peace process. In a confident speech , she urged her audience to keep pushing for a common-sense end to the ages-old conflict. On her last official overseas trip as First Lady, Clinton fondly recalled not only earlier visits to Belfast, but her travel around the globe. Now she’d come to say farewell and, as she put it, to “end one chapter in my life.” But traveling with the president on his victory lap around the British Isles last week, Hillary was opening a whole new book.

As the Clintons prepare to leave the White House, Bill isn’t the only one thinking about a legacy. Hillary has racked up a long list of First Lady “firsts”: first baby boomer, first professional woman, first to head a major government task force, first to testify before a grand jury. “Hillary Clinton is, in my estimation, the single most accomplished First Lady in American history,” say Carl Anthony, a former Nancy Reagan aide and author of “American First Fama bumpy ride. “She might say surviving is her greatest triumph,” says a friend. Now her election to the U. S Senate and a staggering new book deal prove that Clinton has not only survived－she’s thriving. So much so that she’s already topping the whispering list of contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004.

Despite all her years on the national stage, much about Hillary Clinton remains a mystery－